Five Daily Prayers
1,577 questions
What is the reason for feeling constricted and religiously remiss despite performing daily prayers, supererogatory acts, and near-daily Quran recitation?
What is the expiation for a kiss, and do the day's deeds, such as prayers and acts of obedience, atone for it for a married person?
Is it permissible for the Imam to intend to combine prayers (Jam') due to light or heavy rain, given that the prayer area is close to houses and the roads are paved, and there is no permanent Imam?
Is it permissible for someone who suffers from excessive flatulence to perform ablution for each prayer and pray immediately without delay, in order to avoid hardship and missing prayers or daily activities, and is the first prayer he performed before the time expired considered valid if he experienced flatulence again?
What is the ruling on someone who intended to combine the Dhuhr and Asr prayers with an early combination (taqdim), then joined the congregational prayer for Asr with the intention of Dhuhr, and is it permissible for him to complete the Asr prayer thereafter?
What is the ruling on performing Friday Prayer behind an imam who smokes, prevents veiled girls from entering the institute, and rushes to remove their headscarves?
What is the ruling on praying in clothes that have urine on them?
Does exposure to assault in childhood or engaging in masturbation and then repenting from it negate a woman's entry into the Hadith: "If a woman prays her five [daily prayers], fasts her month [Ramadan], and guards her private parts..."?
Are religious books and Qur'anic surahs considered impure after being touched by unpurified hands? And does not purifying them affect the validity of one's Islam after uttering the Shahadatayn?
Is it permissible to perform the funeral prayer and burial in Muslim cemeteries for a person who testified that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His Messenger, and who fasted and prayed, but habitually engaged in usury and insisted upon it, and who did not pay zakat or perform Hajj despite being able to, claiming that his money was illicit?
Is the Witr prostration one or two prostrations?
What is my sister entitled to from the estate of our mother, who passed away five years ago, especially concerning the gold that was in her possession? And should the costs of treatment, hospitalization, charity, and travel that the speaker undertook for her mother be divided?
Does Allah Almighty forgive all sins - including major sins - for those who attend gatherings of remembrance or knowledge, based on the noble Hadith: "No people sit remembering Allah... Arise, you are forgiven, and your evil deeds have been replaced by good deeds. And among them is so-and-so who only came for a need... and he too has been forgiven, their companion will not be miserable with them"?
Is what I am suffering from—chest tightness and sadness, the regression of my discourse after it had progressed, and seeing dirty dreams daily—a satanic touch? And how can I be sure of that? And does heating water on which the Quran has been recited nullify the effect of the recitation?
Is it permissible for the Imam to hold the microphone with his hands during prayer to amplify his voice for the congregants, especially since a lapel microphone causes interference?
Is it obligatory to repeat the prayer if the worshipper remembers after finishing it that he was in a state of ritual impurity?
Is the prayer considered valid when attempting to alert another child during prayer about a small child's actions, and is it better to delay the prayer to avoid this and focus better?
Is it permissible for a mother to divert her gaze during prayer to monitor her infant daughter out of fear for her safety from harm?
What should one do if the time for Fajr prayer in our country is 20 minutes after the Adhan, taking into account what Sheikh Al-Albani said regarding the time of the true dawn (Fajr As-Sadiq)?
Is what the worshiper did—returning to the position of the final tashahhud immediately after the taslim to correct an error in the final tashahhud, pronouncing the takbir while seated without raising the hands, then completing the tashahhud and the taslim, and performing the sujud al-sahw—religiously sound, or should he have returned to the sujud before the tashahhud, and would he then pronounce the takbir?
Do the daily yellow stains on the underwear due to intermittent urine drops count as incontinence, and must the underwear be changed before every prayer, or is a daily change sufficient, and is it necessary to place a tissue on the private parts, and what is the ruling on past prayers, knowing that these stains were present?
Is Umrah—mentioned in the Hadith alongside Friday prayer and Ramadan as expiations for sins—considered obligatory, even though it is not, or does its frequent performance diminish its importance compared to prayer and fasting, and what is the recommended frequency for its performance for those who are able?
Is it permissible to pray behind an imam who has usurped a house or a piece of land?
What is the ruling on an Imam's lapse if he doubts the number of rak'ahs, but the congregants are unaware of his doubt, and the prayer is completed with all its pillars?